Rigorous tape analysis of inhomogeneously-loaded helical slow-wave structures

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1158-1168

  Ghosh, S ^a   Jain, P K ^a   Basu, B N ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRAVELING WAVE TUBES;

HELICAL SLOW-WAVE STRUCTURES;

HELICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0031175956     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.595945     Document Type: Article

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